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Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by [deleted] »

naniwaduni wrote: post #8
Y_Y wrote: post #3

> Unlike other landing pages, this one is run by the PuTTY team itself, and not by a third party with their own agenda. No idea what this means. Anyway Simon Tatham's games are so good I think he gets a pass on anything else he does.

Context: "The domain name putty.org is NOT run by the #PuTTY developers" ( https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114846017785770922 discussed before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328 ), but by a competitor who historically used the site at that domain to promote their own product.

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Re: PuTTY has a new website

#12

Post by nine_k »

yazantapuz wrote: post #7

I hope they only change the domain name, and keep the spartan websiste.

The regular page looks designed by the rules of the earliest version of HTML from 1993: no colors, no fonts, no graphics; it could be a port of a Gopher page. But the new landing page goes all the way to 1995, with fancy custom link colors, and colorful bitmap graphics!

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by GeneralMayhem »

naniwaduni wrote: post #8
Y_Y wrote: post #3

> Unlike other landing pages, this one is run by the PuTTY team itself, and not by a third party with their own agenda. No idea what this means. Anyway Simon Tatham's games are so good I think he gets a pass on anything else he does.

Context: "The domain name putty.org is NOT run by the #PuTTY developers" ( https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114846017785770922 discussed before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328 ), but by a competitor who historically used the site at that domain to promote their own product.

It's much weirder now.

The current holder of that domain is using it to host a single page that pushes anti-vax nonsense under the guise of fighting censorship... but also links to the actual PuTTY site. Very weird mix of maybe-well-meaning and nonsense.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

#14

Post by neilv »

naniwaduni wrote: post #8
Y_Y wrote: post #3

> Unlike other landing pages, this one is run by the PuTTY team itself, and not by a third party with their own agenda. No idea what this means. Anyway Simon Tatham's games are so good I think he gets a pass on anything else he does.

Context: "The domain name putty.org is NOT run by the #PuTTY developers" ( https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114846017785770922 discussed before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328 ), but by a competitor who historically used the site at that domain to promote their own product.

That looks like an open and shut ICANN trademark case to me.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250728091154/https://www.putty...

Re: PuTTY has a new website

#15

Post by MortyWaves »

Ever since Windows gained Terminal and OpenSSH, my usage of Putty has almost entirely ceased except for serial for embedded systems work.

Then I realised Putty ships with a CLI version which I now use in Terminal for accessing serial.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by oguz-ismail »

MortyWaves wrote: post #15

Ever since Windows gained Terminal and OpenSSH, my usage of Putty has almost entirely ceased except for serial for embedded systems work. Then I realised Putty ships with a CLI version which I now use in Terminal for accessing serial.

> Terminal

Have they fixed font rendering yet? cmd.exe looks better on my laptop

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

neilv wrote: post #14
naniwaduni wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Context: "The domain name putty.org is NOT run by the #PuTTY developers" ( https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114846017785770922 discussed before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328 ), but by a competitor who historically used the site at that domain to promote their own product.

That looks like an open and shut ICANN trademark case to me. https://web.archive.org/web/20250728091154/https://www.putty...

They publish (right at the bottom of that page) the emails where a journalist asked them why they're squatting the PuTTY domain and somehow think they make the journalist look bad?! https://web.archive.org/web/20250728091156/https://www.putty...

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by MortyWaves »

oguz-ismail wrote: post #16
MortyWaves wrote: post #15

Ever since Windows gained Terminal and OpenSSH, my usage of Putty has almost entirely ceased except for serial for embedded systems work. Then I realised Putty ships with a CLI version which I now use in Terminal for accessing serial.

> Terminal Have they fixed font rendering yet? cmd.exe looks better on my laptop

I’ve never noticed any issues on any computer with it…
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